Black Lives Matter protests

In my piece for The Sunday Times (21.VI.2020) I look at the Black Lives Matter movement, justice and history. I argue that some violent outbursts have detracted from what is otherwise a critical issue – the systemic racism in our society and whether justice can take place within such structures.

I argue that we need to look at certain laws and see whether these promote justice or whether they are fundamentally unjust. As Martin Luther King rightly observed, “any law that degrades human personality is unjust.”

Nonetheless, I also argue that "To seek to rewrite history and to view the past with the lenses of the present prevents us from seeing how nuanced events are and why history itself is a necessary discipline which gives great insight into our present."

The full piece may be read by clicking here.